January 30, 2013

The book is "The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change." Yeesh. What a title. Drivers. But he couldn't just call it "The Future." That would be dumb. And people love lists. Lists make it seem possible to read a whole book.

That's all I have to say because I haven't read the book. It just came out today yesterday. Instapundit got to drive into the future, and having read "The Future," can give a substantive account. So go read his review. It's mixed.

26 comments:

Wasn't it about ten years ago that Al warned us that we had only ten years left to do something to reverse global warming, or it would become irreversible? I guess we fucked it up. If only he had harangued us more, we could have done it.

Gore's on my "don't bother" list. In a fit of trying to discover the arguments on both sides of anthropogenic global warming, I bought and read An Inconvenient Truth. Fantastically stupid and dishonest.

I don't need a driver. At my age, a putter is sufficient to hole out.....Can you imagine a life so bereft of meaning or entertainment that one actually reads an Al Gore book? There should be so non-profit, voluntary program to help purchasers of Al Gore books recover the savor of life.

"Gore's on my "don't bother" list. In a fit of trying to discover the arguments on both sides of anthropogenic global warming, I bought and read An Inconvenient Truth. Fantastically stupid and dishonest."

That gave me a flashback: I bought Gore's "Reinventing Government" report in book form. Back in the day's when I used to hang out at my local Border's until some bookstore induced madness led me to buy a stack of books that I believed in the vision of myself reading.

You know what I'd like? Full disclosure on authorship of books. Did you write it? Have substantial editorial or research help? Sit down for a couple interviews with the author? Or just attach your name to the finished product?

This is such an obvious ripoff of Niall Ferguson's "Civilization: The West and the Rest" wherein Ferguson describes the 6 "killer apps" (concepts/ideas......"drivers" if you will) that drove Western Civilization's success over other civilizations.

Gore (finally) lists population growth as a cause of climate change. When did he discover this? He didn't mention over-population as a problem in "An Inconvenient Truth." But then he couldn't. It would offend people who favor illegal immigration and open borders.